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I've always tried to use this camera as much like a 35mm or a point and shoot as possible. Sometimes that means the image is less sharp than I'd like...
I still like this shot though.
D2-TIF Ilyushin IL-62 TAAG Angola Airlines - nice replacement for a 732, I didn't complain (but still don't have a 732..)
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“As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.”
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“The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.”
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“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.”
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“That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor..."
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"What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.”
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“What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup".
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“A corner draft fluttered the flame, and the white fever of temptation, upswept its angel wings that cast , a cruciform shadow.”
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“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”
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“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”
- BORIS PASTERNAK
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Taken in Harare, Zimbabwe, october 2005.
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Zimbabwe's premiere Roman Catholic church as the seat of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Harare, Sacred Heart Cathedral is located in the Avenues district of the city.
Despite its significance I can find no details about the architectural history of this gothic revival, twin-towered, beauty, and unfortunately I wasn't inside for more than a few minutes so didn't ask.
Zimbabwe's premiere Roman Catholic church as the seat of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Harare, Sacred Heart Cathedral is located in the Avenues district of the city.
Despite its significance I can find no details about the architectural history of this gothic revival, twin-towered, beauty, and unfortunately I wasn't inside for more than a few minutes so didn't ask.
The Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints, Harare is an Anglican cathedral in Zimbabwe. The Anglican cathedral, located at the intersection of Nelson Mandela Avenue and Sam Nujoma Street, was begun in 1913 to plans by British architect Herbert Baker; he also designed the cathedrals at Cape Town and Johannesburg.
A quiet space in the commercial heart of Zimbabwe’s capital, the Cathedral is often used by workers and shoppers for private prayer.
Construction began under Frederic Beaven, bishop of Mashonaland, and the sanctuary and choir were completed in 1914. The sandstone structure was only finished in 1961. The cathedral features a bell tower with 10 bells which were cast in London. There are four chapels, dedicated to St George, St Mary, St Cecelia and the martyr Bernard Mizeki.
In 2012 a special service marked the return of the building to the Church of the Province of Central Africa after victory in a long running legal battle with excommunicated former bishop Nolbert Kunonga who had broken away from the CPCA in 2007 to form his own church. Kunonga and his supporters seized cars, churches, orphanages and other properties belonging to the CPCA. Eventually Zimbabwe's Supreme Court ruled that all the properties should be returned to the Anglican Diocese of Harare.
This article incorporates text from the English Wikipedia
Flower in the National Botanic Garden in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Photo Credit: Lars Ling
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'Family Love' by Taf Tendai, one of the collective of Chitungwiza Sculptors in Harare, Zimbabwe.
We bought this African opal stone sculpture while on holiday in Dorset.
A beautiful light greenish serpentine, opal stone is a very hard stone finely textured with an almost translucent surface sometimes specked with red, orange and bluish dots and patches. Opal stone is famous for its milky light-coloured greens and smooth texture. It is also unique in that it has fewer colour variations than Serpentine. It is also mined at Chiweshe, two hours north of Harare. This stone is one of the favourites of sculptors, as it’s not as hard as spring stone and other serpentines, but still polishes to a high finish. Opal stone also has at times, a brown colour throughout the predominate green. The appearance can be smooth or mottled. As with most of the stones mined for the purpose of sculpting, opal is mined without the use of automotive tools. On the Mohs hardness scale, Opal stone rates between 5.0-5.5.
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These chaps asked me to take their photo as I strolled along Angwa Street in Harare’s CBD with my camera on a wet day.
The main altar and West End at St Mary’s Cathedral, Harare.
The Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints, Harare is an Anglican cathedral in Zimbabwe. The Anglican cathedral, located at the intersection of Nelson Mandela Avenue and Sam Nujoma Street, was begun in 1913 to plans by British architect Herbert Baker; he also designed the cathedrals at Cape Town and Johannesburg.
A quiet space in the commercial heart of Zimbabwe’s capital, the Cathedral is often used by workers and shoppers for private prayer.
Construction began under Frederic Beaven, bishop of Mashonaland, and the sanctuary and choir were completed in 1914. The sandstone structure was only finished in 1961. The cathedral features a bell tower with 10 bells which were cast in London. There are four chapels, dedicated to St George, St Mary, St Cecelia and the martyr Bernard Mizeki.
In 2012 a special service marked the return of the building to the Church of the Province of Central Africa after victory in a long running legal battle with excommunicated former bishop Nolbert Kunonga who had broken away from the CPCA in 2007 to form his own church. Kunonga and his supporters seized cars, churches, orphanages and other properties belonging to the CPCA. Eventually Zimbabwe's Supreme Court ruled that all the properties should be returned to the Anglican Diocese of Harare.
This article incorporates text from the English Wikipedia
Built in 1922 with a lovely balustrated balcony, Milne’s Buildings is on Robert Mugabe Road in Harare’s Central Business District near its junction with Orr Street.
Harare Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport,Zimbabwe.Photo taken by Panagis Vasilatos.First flight 16/07/1965.
Used to illustrate the article 'Robert Mugabe and the Death of Zimbabwe' at Matador Travel in December 2007.
Coffees from around the world and styles. Different types, designs, prices, etc. Enjoy.
Photo Credit: Lars Ling
Copyright © All rights reserved.
Nikon F2 (c1978)
Ilford FP4+ 125 to 200 ISO
Ilford Microphen Dev.
Scan: 1200 DPI
Harare, Zimbabwe
photographed 1997
Bult in 1923 after a design by J A Cope-Christie, the original proprietors are still in business in Harare but have moved to a suburban shopping mall.
Externally the single-storey iron verandah is supported on six grand Doric columns and the original doors have outstanding brass handles and kick plates. Above is a balustraded parapet with the inscription “Guns and ammunition” on the left and “Cycles and Accessories” on the right. The gable reads, “Erected 1923 F&S established 1910”
Looking north-east from the hill known as Kopje towards Harare's Central Business District in very pleasant wintertime midday sun.
The Kopje is the highest hill in the inner core of Harare, at a height of 1540 metres above sea level, it is still only around 50 metres higher than the surrounding plateau in this high altitude city; the altitude being the secret of Harare's pleasant climate and lack of mosquitos, factors particularly attractive to the first wave of British settlers who arrived in their ‘Pioneer Column’ to build their capital here in September 1890.
At that time, the Kopje belonged to Chief Gutsa’s people who had taken possession from Chief Mbare after they defeated him in a skirmish. There are no Iron Age buildings still standing on the kopje from the period, but no doubt the hill was a well-known landmark and walling and hut circles have been found in the hills around. Chief Neharawa, after whom Harare is named, is reputedly buried within the vicinity of the kopje. The name means, “he does not sleep.”
It now provides a fairly pleasant viewpoint over the city. ZimFieldGuide.com, from which much of this description is sourced, is harsh to say that, “Today the state of the kopje is synonymous with the current state of Harare’s City Council. The lower surrounds of the hill are covered with dumped litter, the roads are in poor shape, the hillsides are used as a public toilet, and many of the Msasa trees have been cut for firewood. The toposcope is destroyed and the public gardens that used to make the site so attractive have gone to ruin. It is no longer a place that you would want to take a visitor to give them a bird’s eye view of the city.”
Looking east from the hill known as Kopje towards Kenneth Kaunda Avenue on the edge of Harare's Central Business District in very pleasant wintertime midday sun. The Eastgate Centre, probably the most interesting building from a technical construction point of view, albeit it doesn't exactly look like Versailles, is left of shot in the background, by the cactus tree.
The Kopje is the highest hill in the inner core of Harare, at a height of 1540 metres above sea level, it is still only around 50 metres higher than the surrounding plateau in this high altitude city; the altitude being the secret of Harare's pleasant climate and lack of mosquitos, factors particularly attractive to the first wave of British settlers who arrived in their ‘Pioneer Column’ to build their capital here in September 1890.
At that time, the Kopje belonged to Chief Gutsa’s people who had taken possession from Chief Mbare after they defeated him in a skirmish. There are no Iron Age buildings still standing on the kopje from the period, but no doubt the hill was a well-known landmark and walling and hut circles have been found in the hills around. Chief Neharawa, after whom Harare is named, is reputedly buried within the vicinity of the kopje. The name means, “he does not sleep.”
It now provides a fairly pleasant viewpoint over the city. ZimFieldGuide.com, from which much of this description is sourced, is harsh to say that, “Today the state of the kopje is synonymous with the current state of Harare’s City Council. The lower surrounds of the hill are covered with dumped litter, the roads are in poor shape, the hillsides are used as a public toilet, and many of the Msasa trees have been cut for firewood. The toposcope is destroyed and the public gardens that used to make the site so attractive have gone to ruin. It is no longer a place that you would want to take a visitor to give them a bird’s eye view of the city.”
Harare City
Nikon F2 (c1978)
Ilford FP4 plus 125 to 200 ISO
Ilford Microphen Dev.
Scan: 1200 DPI
Zimbabwe
photographed 1994
One of the set of modern, African-styled Stations of the Cross from St Mary's Anglican Cathedral in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare.
At the Swedish Ambassador’s Residence in Harare, leaders from Sweden and Zimbabwe gathered for a high-level Business Breakfast hosted by H.E. Per Lindgärde—strengthening bilateral cooperation and accelerating sustainable industrial partnerships in Zimbabwe.
A central highlight was the presentation by Absolicon Solar Collector AB on its strategic collaboration with ZESA Holdings to establish Africa’s first Solar Thermal Energy factory—a transformative initiative designed to industrialize clean heat production and decarbonize African industries at scale.
www.absolicon.com/absolicon-signs-agreement-on-cooperatio...
www.swedenabroad.se/en/embassies/zimbabwe-harare/contact/
Investment perspectives were shared by Tafadzwa Chinamo, CEO of Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency, highlighting Zimbabwe’s commitment to enabling international collaboration and sustainable growth.
Lars Ling, CEO of CleanTech Region Group, serves as business advisor to Absolicon and ZESA—facilitating partnerships, investment dialogue, and strategic positioning to accelerate the energy transition and decarbonization of African industries through solar thermal heat solutions.
The breakfast also convened Swedish industrial leaders including ABB, Sandvik, Atlas Copco, Husqvarna, Epiroc, and Scania—demonstrating the breadth of Swedish innovation across energy, mining, infrastructure, and mobility.
The meeting reflected a shared ambition: combining Swedish industrial excellence with Zimbabwean opportunity to unlock investment, jobs, and climate-positive impact across Southern Africa.
Thank you, Your Excellency, for the invitation and for hosting an inspiring and forward-looking breakfast.
Photo and Video Credit: Lars Ling and the Swedish Embassy.
© 2025-2026 Lars Ling / CleanTech Region Group. All rights reserved.
This couple waved to me from their car stuck in traffic on Harare’s Nelson Mandela Avenue and asked me to take their photo. So I did.
At the Swedish Ambassador’s Residence in Harare, leaders from Sweden and Zimbabwe gathered for a high-level Business Breakfast hosted by H.E. Per Lindgärde—strengthening bilateral cooperation and accelerating sustainable industrial partnerships in Zimbabwe.
A central highlight was the presentation by Absolicon Solar Collector AB on its strategic collaboration with ZESA Holdings to establish Africa’s first Solar Thermal Energy factory—a transformative initiative designed to industrialize clean heat production and decarbonize African industries at scale.
www.absolicon.com/absolicon-signs-agreement-on-cooperatio...
www.swedenabroad.se/en/embassies/zimbabwe-harare/contact/
Investment perspectives were shared by Tafadzwa Chinamo, CEO of Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency, highlighting Zimbabwe’s commitment to enabling international collaboration and sustainable growth.
Lars Ling, CEO of CleanTech Region Group, serves as business advisor to Absolicon and ZESA—facilitating partnerships, investment dialogue, and strategic positioning to accelerate the energy transition and decarbonization of African industries through solar thermal heat solutions.
The breakfast also convened Swedish industrial leaders including ABB, Sandvik, Atlas Copco, Husqvarna, Epiroc, and Scania—demonstrating the breadth of Swedish innovation across energy, mining, infrastructure, and mobility.
The meeting reflected a shared ambition: combining Swedish industrial excellence with Zimbabwean opportunity to unlock investment, jobs, and climate-positive impact across Southern Africa.
Thank you, Your Excellency, for the invitation and for hosting an inspiring and forward-looking breakfast.
Photo and Video Credit: Lars Ling and the Swedish Embassy.
© 2025-2026 Lars Ling / CleanTech Region Group. All rights reserved.
Öyle de her şey, Cenâb-ı Hakk'ın namına hareket eder ki; zerrecikler gibi tohumlar, çekirdekler başlarında koca ağaçları taşıyor, dağ gibi yükleri kaldırıyorlar. Demek herbir ağaç, Bismillah der. Hazine-i Rahmet meyvelerinden ellerini dolduruyor, bizlere tablacılık ediyor. .......
.....Evet havada dalların intişarı ve meyve vermesi gibi, o sert taş ve topraktaki köklerin kemâl-i sühuletle intişar etmesi ve yer altında yemiş vermesi; hem şiddet-i hararete karşı aylarca nâzik, yeşil yaprakların yaş kalması; tabiiyunun ağzına şiddetle tokat vuruyor. Kör olası gözüne parmağını sokuyor ve diyor ki: En güvendiğin salabet ve hararet dahi, emir tahtında hareket ediyorlar ki; o ipek gibi yumuşak damarlar, birer asâ-yı Mûsa (A.S.) gibi فَقُلْنَااضْرِبْْبِعَصَاكَالْحَجَرَ emrine imtisâl ederek taşları şakk eder.
Total immersion font at St Mary’s Cathedral, Harare. I cannot find any information about its date. At first blush it may seem incongruous with the strongly Anglo-Catholic tradition of the Cathedral, but Zimbabwe is a country where adult conversions to Christianity were frequent into living memory.
The Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints, Harare is an Anglican cathedral in Zimbabwe. The Anglican cathedral, located at the intersection of Nelson Mandela Avenue and Sam Nujoma Street, was begun in 1913 to plans by British architect Herbert Baker; he also designed the cathedrals at Cape Town and Johannesburg.
A quiet space in the commercial heart of Zimbabwe’s capital, the Cathedral is often used by workers and shoppers for private prayer.
Construction began under Frederic Beaven, bishop of Mashonaland, and the sanctuary and choir were completed in 1914. The sandstone structure was only finished in 1961. The cathedral features a bell tower with 10 bells which were cast in London. There are four chapels, dedicated to St George, St Mary, St Cecelia and the martyr Bernard Mizeki.
In 2012 a special service marked the return of the building to the Church of the Province of Central Africa after victory in a long running legal battle with excommunicated former bishop Nolbert Kunonga who had broken away from the CPCA in 2007 to form his own church. Kunonga and his supporters seized cars, churches, orphanages and other properties belonging to the CPCA. Eventually Zimbabwe's Supreme Court ruled that all the properties should be returned to the Anglican Diocese of Harare.
This article incorporates text from the English Wikipedia
The Eastgate Centre is a 1996 shopping centre and office block in Harare’s Central Business District designed by Mick Pearce. Designed to be ventilated and cooled by entirely natural means, it was probably the first building in the world to use natural cooling to this level of sophistication. Because of its altitude, Harare has a temperate climate despite being in the tropics, and the typical daily temperature swing is 10 to 14 °C. This makes a mechanical or passive cooling system a viable alternative to artificial air-conditioning. Passively cooled, Eastgate uses only 10% of the energy needed by a similar conventionally cooled building. Termite mounds use a similar system of passive heating and cooling. It is located at the corner of Robert Mugabe Avenue and Second Street.
The rood cross at St Mary’s Cathedral, Harare.
The Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints, Harare is an Anglican cathedral in Zimbabwe. The Anglican cathedral, located at the intersection of Nelson Mandela Avenue and Sam Nujoma Street, was begun in 1913 to plans by British architect Herbert Baker; he also designed the cathedrals at Cape Town and Johannesburg.
A quiet space in the commercial heart of Zimbabwe’s capital, the Cathedral is often used by workers and shoppers for private prayer.
Construction began under Frederic Beaven, bishop of Mashonaland, and the sanctuary and choir were completed in 1914. The sandstone structure was only finished in 1961. The cathedral features a bell tower with 10 bells which were cast in London. There are four chapels, dedicated to St George, St Mary, St Cecelia and the martyr Bernard Mizeki.
In 2012 a special service marked the return of the building to the Church of the Province of Central Africa after victory in a long running legal battle with excommunicated former bishop Nolbert Kunonga who had broken away from the CPCA in 2007 to form his own church. Kunonga and his supporters seized cars, churches, orphanages and other properties belonging to the CPCA. Eventually Zimbabwe's Supreme Court ruled that all the properties should be returned to the Anglican Diocese of Harare.
This article incorporates text from the English Wikipedia
The Cathedral of St Mary and All Saints is an Anglican cathedral in Harare’s Central Business District. It was begun in 1913 to plans by British architect Herbert Baker; he also designed the cathedrals at Cape Town and Johannesburg. Construction began under Frederic Beaven, bishop of Mashonaland, and the sanctuary and choir were completed in 1914. The sandstone structure was only finished in 1961. The cathedral features a bell tower with 10 bells which were cast in London. There are four chapels, dedicated to St George, St Mary, St Cecelia and the martyr Bernard Mizeki.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.
Photographed here from its south-west corner on a rainy day, Africa Unity Square offers a shady retreat in the heart of Harare’s Central Business District. It is known for the photographers and flower-sellers who ply their trade here.
The square is laid out in the pattern of a British Union Flag, marking the site on which at around 10 a.m. on 13 September 1890 members of the colonists’ pioneer column tied the Union Jack at the end of a pole and hoisted it in the centre of the park before offering a prayer and firing salutes from two field guns. It was originally named Cecil Square in honour of Cecil Rhodes.